Landscape and Identity
A Graduate Student Colloquium on Literature and the Arts
Saint Louis University Madrid Campus
Friday - June 3, 2005
Program
10:30 - 11:00 Registration
11:00 - 12:15 Session I: Concurrent Panels
Panel I-A: Crossing Borders, Constructing Identities
Aula 7 – Avenida del Valle, 28
Moderator: Dave Murad
Elsinore: The State is a Corrupted Landscape
Jaime Ortiz Núñez
Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus
Crossing Borderlands, Overstepping Thresholds: Chicana Identity in the Fictio n of Helena
María Viramontes
María Laura Arce Álvarez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Travel Accounts: A Contact and Cultural Exchange Place
Catherine Briand
Université Paris IV Sorbonne
Panel I-B: Creating the Self in Human Spaces
Aula 8 – Avenida del Valle, 28
Moderator: Phoebe Collins
Perimeters, Performance and Perversity: Chueca, Madrid
Brian Adams-Thies
University of Arizona
Eighteenth-Century Landscapes of Charity and Class: The London Magdalen Hospital for
Penitent Prostitutes and Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall
Jessica Hollis
University of Kentucky
Projecting Personalities on Landscape and Spaces in Du Maurier’s Rebecca
Beatriz Sánchez Santos
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
12:15 - 12:45 Coffee Break
12:45 - 2:00
Session II: Concurrent Panels
Panel II-A: Writing into the Land: Identity and Natural Landscapes
Aula 7 – Avenida del Valle, 28
Moderator: Marjory Hutchison
The Use of Nature, Land, and Landscape in Marilyn Dumont’s Poetry: An Individual Analysis
of Four Poems
David Leal Cobos
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Lessons Beyond Words: The Recurring Impact of The Steerage in A Walker in the City
Phoebe Collins
Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus
Landscapes of Passion, Fear and Imprisonment: Wuthering Moors, Locked Doors and the
Fashioning of Fraught Identities in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Wilkie Collins ’s The
Woman in White
Alexandra Lewis
University of Sydney
Panel II-B: Landscapes of a Modern World
Aula 7 – Avenida del Valle, 28
Moderator: Kirk Tennant
A Mannian Artist versus a Modern Composer
Elicia Peters
Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus
UFOs and Aliens: Imaginary Landscapes in a High-Tech, Globalised World
Zoe Couacaud
University of Sydney
The Kitchen as Landscape in Leonora Carrington’s Short Stories: “Flesh-Eaters” and “CookiesAnd-Green Eaters”
Isabel Fernández Agüero
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2:15 - 3:45
Lunch: The Billikin Snack Bar (Ground Floor)
3:45 - 5:15
Session III: Concurrent Panels
Panel III-A: Symbolic Spaces and the Construction of Identities
Aula 7 – Avenida del Valle, 28
Moderator: Elicia Peters
From Ice to Water in Michael Ondtaajie’s In the Skin of a Lion
Marjory Hutchison
Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus
“Valley of Silence”: Creation and Autobiography in John Phillip Santos’s
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
David Murad
Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus
“Space as Symbol”: John Updike’s “Country of Ideas”
Eva-S. Zehelein
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
Slotless Cities and Chemical Gardens: Inner and Outer Landscapes in the Fiction of W. S.
Burroughs
Carmen Méndez García
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Panel III-B: Space and Landscape in Modern Drama
Aula 8 – Avenida del Valle, 28
Moderator: Jaime Ortiz Núñez
Refiguring Identity in The Outside Landscape: Space and Gender in Susan Glaspell’s Theatre
Noelia Hernando-Real
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Landscape and Identity in Caryl Churchill’s Icecream
Arancha Álvarez Villegas
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Here and There: Staging the Land/Scape of Sarah Kane’s Crave
Analía Gutiérrez García
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
5:30 - 6:30
Session IV: Plenary Reflections and Responses
Aula 8 – Avenida del Valle, 28
Fred Arroyo, Ph.D.
Saint Louis University – Frost Campus
Eulalia Piñero, Ph.D.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Anne D. Dewey, Ph.D.
Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus
Julia Salmerón, Ph.D.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Matthew Kineen, Ph.D.
Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus
Moderator: Paul Vita, Ph.D.
Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus